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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Pastor Flemons provided life lessons from the events in the life of David during his reign. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, discussed endometriosis and its cause, which has been said to be unknown. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – March 12-18.
Worship Sunday -David at Ziklag; Monday – David Called to the Throne; Tuesday – The Reign of David; Wednesday – David’s Sin and Repentance; Thursday – The Rebellion of Absalom; Friday – The Last Years of David; Saturday, the Sabbath –
[All topics per Patriarchs and Prophets (PP) by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saturday, the Sabbath – Pathology of the Reproductive System: Sunday – Fibroids; Monday – Fibroids II; Tuesday – Endometriosis
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Words of Encouragement
Job 19:25-26 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
One. Ask God every step of the way. David had sought God and waited for God to direct him in ascending the throne. Once he was established on the throne, David again sought divine guidance in securing the capital for his reign: Jerusalem. God gave him step-by-step directions. Had David, like Saul, failed to obey and chosen his own way, he would not have had any success.
Two. Be careful of the details. Pastor Flemons often says, “God’s commands are not conditional. His blessings and curses are conditional.” In transporting the ark of God to the new capital, a grand company of the leading men of Israel were summoned. Thirty thousand of them gathered “to make the occasion a scene of great rejoicing and imposing display.” The ark was placed on a new cart drawn by oxen. Along the way, the oxen shook the ark, and Uzzah reached forward to steady it and immediately died. Had the ark been carried with the staves on the shoulders of the priests according to God’s command, this would never have happened. And the divine command was “The sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die” (Numbers 4:15). When they followed God’s commands to the detail, they were successful in completing the journey of the ark to Jerusalem.
Similarly, the seventh-day Sabbath is the sacred day God has chosen to meet with His people. It is the fourth commandment. It is a specified time that is sacred. It does not negate living holy every day. This weekly meeting called by God Himself is not optional. We cannot pick and choose any other day for this sacred session with Him. To do so has eternal consequences. It is never safe to disregard God’s directions. When we strictly follow the “narrow way,” we can be assured of successfully completing our journey.
Three. Don’t elevate yourself. Identify with the people. David put off the kingly robe and “attired himself in a plain linen ephod,” which was “sometimes worn by others besides the priests. But in this holy service he would take his place as, before God, on an equality with his subjects. Upon that day Jehovah was to be adored. He was to be the sole object of reverence.PP 706.3″
Four. Don’t mix common things and behavior with the sacred. As the ark traveled to Jerusalem, “David danced before the Lord.” He kept time to the measure of the song.
“David’s dancing in reverent joy before God has been cited by pleasure lovers in justification of the fashionable modern dance, but there is no ground for such an argument. In our day dancing is associated with folly and midnight reveling. Health and morals are sacrificed to pleasure. By the frequenters of the ballroom God is not an object of thought and reverence; prayer or the song of praise would be felt to be out of place in their assemblies. This test should be decisive. Amusements that have a tendency to weaken the love for sacred things and lessen our joy in the service of God are not to be sought by Christians. The music and dancing in joyful praise to God at the removal of the ark had not the faintest resemblance to the dissipation of modern dancing. The one tended to the remembrance of God and exalted His holy name. The other is a device of Satan to cause men to forget God and to dishonor Him.PP 707.2″
The procession was brought to a reverent close in Jerusalem. The ark finally rested in its sacred place, near the throne of Israel. The celebration was the most sacred event that had yet marked the reign of David.
Five. Be grateful and submit to God, even when it means letting go of your grandest hopes. David’s greatest honor would have been to erect a temple for the LORD. But this was not to be. He had shed too much blood. God promised that this honor would be reserved for David’s son Solomon. During Solomon’s reign there would be peace. His very name means peaceable. (Read 1 Chronicles 22:8-10.) David manifested a grateful resignation “rarely seen, even among Christians.”
(This study is based on 2 Samuel 5:6-25; 6; 7; 9; and 10; and chapter 70, “The Reign of David,” in Patriarchs and Prophets (PP), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Every disease has a cause. Proverbs 26:2 says “the curse causeless shall not come.” “Modern medicine,” says Pastor Flemons, “does not know the laws” [of biblical health]. That’s why many diseases are determined to be unknown. During this study, as with every month, a week is spent on anatomy and physiology. A week is spent on pathology. A week is spent on the laws of biblical health. A week is spent on natural methods of healing.
Endometriosis, like fibroids, develops from excess protein in the diet, excess estrogen, and lack of exercise. When the cells of the endometrium break off and travel to other locations of the body and attach themselves, they still swell and bleed, as they would inside the uterus. Endometriosis can happen in teens. Fibroids tend to happen in women in their thirties. This is why Pastor Flemons call endometriosis baby fibroids.
The symptoms of endometriosis include those of fibroids as well: pelvic pain and bleeding and painful intercourse and bowel movements. Both fibroids and endometriosis may also cause infertility. In both, hormones need balancing and animal flesh and dairy need to be avoided. More details will be provided in the weeks covering biblical health lifestyle and natural healing. We call it the REFRESHING way!